Can someone explain us what are the ways from Mongo DB features i can use to delete the documents which are greater than X days from the collection periodically from the mongo collection
TTL Indexes are the feature you are looking for.
Some considerations when enabling a TTL index:
- Creating a TTL index on a populated collection will likely start deleting documents from the collection immediately you will see extra operations and IO on the cluster.
- A large amount of inserts will have a corresponding amount of deletes when the TTL is reached.
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In addition to what Chris mentioned about using a TTL index, Online Archive can be useful for your use case.
Note that Online Archive Atlas moves infrequently accessed data from your Atlas cluster to a MongoDB-managed read-only Federated Database Instance on a cloud object storage older than X days. It not just deletes data from your cluster, but it moves your data older than X days (or any other rule you configure) to cloud object storage.
Here are some useful links:
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